seo urls settings ?

[fatbloke]

Hi

I need some help on the overall settings that need to be made for seo urls to work ?

I have turned the contribution on ... but get this 404 error when I click a catagory link .

. I think there are some other things to activate / de activate in the addin area aren't there ?

http://www.smysite.com/software-c-3.html

cheers

Roy

[ALElder]

Did you customize your home page?

Most of the time you just need to relink

What’s you website?

[michael_s]

You need to edit the .htaccess file to activate the rewrite rules. Go to your catalog directory, and edit the .htaccess file and uncomment the lines you need according to the instructions in the file...

[fatbloke]

Hi

Thanks for reply

I uncommented the lines in htaccess relevant to install - in root folder - then index page would not load ..

So I commented them back ..and the page still will not load !!

/admin loads ok

What have I done now ??

I seem to rmeber that seo urls are a combination of other settings ..cache etc ..presumably i have them wrong .. changed them so much not sure of default settings now.

Any ideas how I get the index page back ? browser says loading complete and PR shows in google tool bar ??

Cheers

Roy

[michael_s]

Check your error logs. Blank page = some kind of error.

There are 2 different areas for seo urls in osCMax. One located in Configuration >> My Store >> Use Search-Engine Safe URLs (still in development) should be set to false.

The following should then be configured in your admin panel:

Configuration >> Seo URLs

On that page set the following:
Enable SEO URLs? >> True
Choose URL Type >> Rewrite


Then finally, your should uncomment the following in the .htaccess file if installed in the catalog directory:

RewriteEngine On
# Change "folder" to your catalog directory name
RewriteBase /catalog/
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-(.*).html$ index.php?manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

Note that I have changed the RewriteBase to /catalog/

That should get you running.

One last note, you did not state if you were on Linux or Windows. If on windows this will not work.

[fatbloke]

Hi

Thanks again for the reply

But .. no it didn't work - its a Unix server oscmax in root folder.

Can I pay you to sort it.. I can send domain access and server root access if you need it ..( by email ? )

Cheers

Roy

[fatbloke]

The index page was visible after the install today

Then I changes some options in the admin and then the index is not visible but browser says its loaded

The first time I noticed index would not load - was after I clicked into a catagory - the error was 404 and the url it quoted was an seo re - written format for the missing page ..browser back button to index then page didnt load

[michael_s]

PM your admin login info to me and I will take a look at your settings.

[adiwillow]

it sounds like your host does not allow htaccess, or at least restricts it. Switch to using cname SEO URL's and you should be okay.